TikTok users troll Trump "voter fraud" reporting hotline en masse
If you've turned on a radio, television, or Internet-connected device since last Monday, you've probably heard that there was a federal election in the United States this past week. After waiting through four days of election officials nationwide working to tally up ballots as fast as they could, all major media outlets on Saturday agreed that the Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, won the election, paving the path for him to be sworn in as our 46th president in January.
One key figure, however, has yet to accept the outcome: the loser of the race, incumbent President Donald Trump. Trump made clear in September that he had no intent of conceding should he lose the election. He has followed through on that threat, filing a dozen lawsuits in at least five states so far, making baseless allegations of fraud and seeking to have ballots thrown out or recounted.
As part of this effort, Trump administration officials and their allies, such as the president's adult sons, took to social media asking anyone with suspicions or evidence of voter fraud to call a specific hotline number. The Internet has responded to the existence of this hotline exactly as one might expect: with maximum trolling.
ABC News was first to report that staffers at the campaign's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters have been inundated with prank calls—and that recordings of those calls have become a popular trend on short-form video sharing social media platform TikTok.
One user, for example, recorded her call in which she quoted CNN's Anderson Cooper, saying she found an "obese turtle" overturned on is back in the sun. Another, unable to keep from laughing for the full duration of her call, claimed to have seen individuals "literally spreading poop" on their ballots.
Playing an anti-Trump rap, "FDT," was one popular tactic. (The "F" stands for exactly what you think it does, and the audio is not safe for most workplaces.) And music also formed the backdrop for another prank, in which the caller told the Trump campaign that she was a voter in Georgia, "in line to vote, and there was this guy there... and he challenged me to a fiddle contest?" while playing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in the background.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/tiktok-users-troll-trump-voter-fraud-reporting-hotline-en-masse/
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... but thanks for posting it here on DU where we have free speech (most of the time.)
